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All originally posted by Markjcj
All originally posted by Markjcj
Pic of the Day - 7th, 10th, 17th, 20th July
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Pic Of The Day 7th July 2004
Todays pic is a great nebula piccy, from one of my favourite sources; The Hubble Space Telescope.
As is usual with the Hubble pics there are several larger versions and a full text write up available here.
Dying Star Sculpts Rungs of Gas and Dust
Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven," but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star. A new image, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals startling new details of one of the most unusual nebulae known in our Milky Way. Cataloged as HD 44179, this nebula is more commonly called the "Red Rectangle" because of its unique shape and color as seen with ground-based telescopes.
Credit: NASA; ESA; Hans Van Winckel (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium); and Martin Cohen (University of California, Berkeley)
Todays pic is a great nebula piccy, from one of my favourite sources; The Hubble Space Telescope.
As is usual with the Hubble pics there are several larger versions and a full text write up available here.
Dying Star Sculpts Rungs of Gas and Dust
Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven," but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star. A new image, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals startling new details of one of the most unusual nebulae known in our Milky Way. Cataloged as HD 44179, this nebula is more commonly called the "Red Rectangle" because of its unique shape and color as seen with ground-based telescopes.
Credit: NASA; ESA; Hans Van Winckel (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium); and Martin Cohen (University of California, Berkeley)
Pic Of The Day 10th July 2004
Todays pic is of a galaxy some 50M light years away, but which according to astronomers could easily be a picture of home.
Clicking on the above image will take you to a higher resolution version (783KB Jpeg (1239x805 pixels)).
NGC 7331: A Galaxy So Inclined
If our own Milky Way galaxy were 50 million light-years away with its disk inclined slightly to our line of sight, it would look a lot like large spiral galaxy NGC 7331. In fact, seen here in a false-color infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope, NGC 7331 is interesting in part because it is thought to be so similar to the Milky Way. Light from older, cooler stars, shown in blue, dominates the central bulge of NGC 7331, while Spitzer data also indicates the presence of a black hole within this galaxy's central regions - about the same size as the black hole at our own galactic core. Shown in red and brown, radiation from complex molecules associated with dust traces NGC 7331's star forming spiral arms. The arms span around 100,000 light-years, about the size of the Milky Way. Curiously, a further star forming ring is visible in yellowish hues, 20,000 light-years or so from the center of NGC 7331, but it is not known if such a structure exists within our own galaxy.
Credit: M. Regan (STScI) et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA
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Todays pic is of a galaxy some 50M light years away, but which according to astronomers could easily be a picture of home.
Clicking on the above image will take you to a higher resolution version (783KB Jpeg (1239x805 pixels)).
NGC 7331: A Galaxy So Inclined
If our own Milky Way galaxy were 50 million light-years away with its disk inclined slightly to our line of sight, it would look a lot like large spiral galaxy NGC 7331. In fact, seen here in a false-color infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope, NGC 7331 is interesting in part because it is thought to be so similar to the Milky Way. Light from older, cooler stars, shown in blue, dominates the central bulge of NGC 7331, while Spitzer data also indicates the presence of a black hole within this galaxy's central regions - about the same size as the black hole at our own galactic core. Shown in red and brown, radiation from complex molecules associated with dust traces NGC 7331's star forming spiral arms. The arms span around 100,000 light-years, about the size of the Milky Way. Curiously, a further star forming ring is visible in yellowish hues, 20,000 light-years or so from the center of NGC 7331, but it is not known if such a structure exists within our own galaxy.
Credit: M. Regan (STScI) et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA
Previous Pic Of The Day posts
Pic Of The Day 17th July 2004
Todays pic is from the Hubble Space Telescope, a look at star formation in a neighbouring galaxy.
As always with images from the Hubble Space Telescope, a full text write up and several different resolution versions of the above image are available; they can be found here.
Hubble Studies Generations of Star Formation in Neighboring Galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighboring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars. The star-forming region, catalogued as N11B, lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), located only 160,000 light-years from Earth. With its high resolution, the Hubble Space Telescope is able to view details of star formation in the LMC as easily as ground-based telescopes are able to observe stellar formation within our own Milky Way galaxy.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Y. Nazé (U. Liège, Belgium)
Todays pic is from the Hubble Space Telescope, a look at star formation in a neighbouring galaxy.
As always with images from the Hubble Space Telescope, a full text write up and several different resolution versions of the above image are available; they can be found here.
Hubble Studies Generations of Star Formation in Neighboring Galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighboring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars. The star-forming region, catalogued as N11B, lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), located only 160,000 light-years from Earth. With its high resolution, the Hubble Space Telescope is able to view details of star formation in the LMC as easily as ground-based telescopes are able to observe stellar formation within our own Milky Way galaxy.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Y. Nazé (U. Liège, Belgium)
Pic Of The Day 20th July 2004
Todays pic is one that can only be done the once, it's not every day that you can post a pic commemorating the anniversary of man landing on the moon for the very first time.
I don't think there has to be an explanation for this one
but for those interested there is loads of info available here, that page also includes links to the original TV footage etc.
Follow-up by Berserker ...
Nice one. I have one of my famous follow-ups planned too:
And, as we celebrate this "giant leap for mankind", and all the successes that followed it, we should also spare a thought for those who were not so lucky, including:
Click on the patches for more information about the missions.
Todays pic is one that can only be done the once, it's not every day that you can post a pic commemorating the anniversary of man landing on the moon for the very first time.
I don't think there has to be an explanation for this one
but for those interested there is loads of info available here, that page also includes links to the original TV footage etc.Follow-up by Berserker ...
Nice one. I have one of my famous follow-ups planned too:
And, as we celebrate this "giant leap for mankind", and all the successes that followed it, we should also spare a thought for those who were not so lucky, including:
Click on the patches for more information about the missions.